Small Peace

Category: poland

  • Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland

    Jörg Scheller was invited by the University of Groningen (NL) to present and discuss art projects from present-day Poland that oppose the rampant polarization between internationally oriented left-wing liberals and nationally oriented right-wing conservatives. His lecture “Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland” focused on artists (a.o. Daniel Rycharski and Jana Shostak)…

  • Disposable Hero? Heavy Metal as Peacebuilding

    Jörg Scheller published a new article in the edited volume “Meta/Metal. Open Questions in Metal Studies“. “Disposable Hero? Heavy Metal as Peacebuilding” is connected to our research project’s interest in popular culture as a – possible – site for (implicit) peacebuilding. The article argues that heavy metal can not only enable catharsis but can also…

  • Central Eastern Europe and Geopolitics

    In his new article “Ostmitteleuropa ist ein Bollwerk des Realitätssinns” (in German) for the magazine Schweizer Monat, Jörg Scheller argues that Central Eastern European perspectives have long been marginalized in Western Europe, especially in the context of geopolitics.

  • sub-Project Poland

    This sub-project examines how Polish artists and cultural practitioners respond to the socio-political polarisation and the “culture wars” in their country. How do they attempt to contribute to “peacebuilding” in the sense of positive peace? The study is empirically oriented and, on the basis of on-site research, describes various approaches to achieving positive peace through…